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Creating A Garden When You Have Deep Shade
Creating shade gardens is not always as simple, or cut and dry, as it might sound. For starters, there are varying amounts of shade at any given time of the day in your yard. So some areas might have deep, dark shade all day long - without barely even any ...
 

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Growing A Salad Garden

Growing a salad garden is one of the best ways to introduce yourself or your children to the joys of vegetable gardening. It’s quite easy to do, and it’s tasty too! One of the most popular ways to grow a salad garden is in containers. The small containers tend to fit easily into a kitchen or dining room window, and this is handy particularly if you don’t have much (or any) yard space to plant the vegetables in.

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Get Rid of Your Gardening Aches and Pains With Raised Beds!
Are age related problems stopping you from enjoying your gardening? The sore back from too much bending, sore knees from too much kneeling or just the long recovery from aches and pains after a stint in the garden. I know these problems first hand, as a baby boomer I had ...
 
Tomato - Burpee Big Boy
Tomato - Burpee Big BoyThe Tomato Burpee Big Boy, `Lycopersicon lycopersicum', is a very vigerous plant with heavy foliage that produces large fruit. The Burpee Big Boy is a long time best seller with firm, smooth, red fruit, great flavor, and excellent quality. It is popular for plant or fruit sales at roadside markets and [...]
 
For All-Season Blooms Plant Floribunda Roses
The name 'Floribunda' is of Latin origin and means "many flowered" or "abundance of flowers" and this variety of rose certainly lives up to its name. The Floribunda rose is the result of crossbreeding a Hybrid Tea and a Polyantha in the 1920's. The Floribunda is considered by many to be a better breed than the Hybrid Tea because of its capacity to produce many blooms over an extended period of time.
 
Ramshead Urn and Tivoli Urn with Large Square Frame Pedestal (Set of 3)
Ramshead Urn and Tivoli Urn with Large Square Frame Pedestal (Set of 3) Ramshead Urn and Tivoli Urn with Large Square Frame Pedestal (Set of 3) The Ramshead Urn and Tivoli Urn with Large Square Frame Pedestal (Set of 3) is from our Garden Decor Collection. The highest quality cast stone material in unique designs that are [...]
 
Upside Down Tomato Planter
You have probably seen or heard about the upside down tomato planter. My neighbor plants three or four of these every year and gets a lot of tomatoes from his plants. A simple explanation is that you plant your tomato in the bottom of a hanging bucket or container. I know, ...